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Why Moldova fears it could be next for Putin
CNN.com ^ | February 26, 2023 | Rob Picheta

Posted on 02/26/2023 5:10:51 AM PST by Timber Rattler

Tensions are mounting in Moldova, a small country on Ukraine’s southwestern border, where Russia has been accused of laying the groundwork for a coup that could drag the nation into the Kremlin’s war.

Moldova’s President, Maia Sandu, has accused Russia of using “saboteurs” disguised as civilians to stoke unrest amid a period of political instability, echoing similar warnings from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has meanwhile baselessly accused Kyiv of planning its own assault on a pro-Russian territory in Moldova where Moscow has a military foothold, heightening fears that he is creating a pretext for a Crimea-style annexation.

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Despite Moscow’s pleas of innocence, its actions regarding Moldova bear a striking resemblance to moves it made ahead of its annexation of Crimea in 2014, and its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year.

On Tuesday, Putin revoked a 2012 foreign policy decree that in part recognized Moldova’s independence, according to Reuters.

Then on Thursday, Russia’s Ministry of Defense accused Ukraine of “preparing an armed provocation” against Moldova’s pro-Russian separatist region of Transnistria “in the near future,” state-media TASS reported.

No evidence or further details were offered to support the ministry’s accusation, and it has been rubbished by Moldova.

But the claim has put Western leaders on alert, coming almost exactly a year after Putin made similar, unsubstantiated claims that Russians were being targeted in the Donbas – the eastern flank of Ukraine where Moscow had supported militant separatists since 2014 – allowing him to cast his invasion of the country as an issue of self-defense.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 0sorry; 1russiaisbusyatm; europe; geniusplan; moldova; nato; putinglobalgenius; putinisgay; russianinvasions; russianmenace; russianthreats; ukraine; yestrythat
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Putin's same old playbook...nothing original there.
1 posted on 02/26/2023 5:10:51 AM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

Moldova is ethnically and historically tied to Romania - both are Latin nations.

Watch this start a chain reaction with the “Bucharest 9” (except Hungary perhaps).


2 posted on 02/26/2023 5:14:37 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Timber Rattler

Just pray there won’t be a 2014 Ukrainian style western backed coup there...


3 posted on 02/26/2023 5:19:04 AM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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Just pray there won’t be a 2014 Ukrainian style western Russian backed coup there...

Fixed.

4 posted on 02/26/2023 5:24:30 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler
Why Moldova fears it could be next for Putin

Answer because its a country near Russia, is not in NATO and is being threatened by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Russia’s top diplomat said the actions of Western nations could soon turn Moldova into the “next Ukraine,” according to TASS.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Moldovan President Maia Sandu of being “eager to join NATO.” Sandu, Lavrov said, is “ready to unite with Romania and in fact, to do almost anything.”

5 posted on 02/26/2023 5:28:46 AM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: 2banana
Ukrainian style western backed coup there...

Yes, forcing Ukrainians to want to join the EU and have its quality of life vs some Russian-BananaStan economic group.

Theft Of Century: They Made TV Story About Stolen Rural Toilet In Russia

The Russian police are investigating the theft of a public toilet in a village in the Urals. The local media even devoted a TV report to this egregious crime.

According to RIA Novy Den, a significant event took place in the Novoukrainsky village of the Chesmensky district of the Chelyabinsk region four years ago: a cesspool with a wooden plank cabin above it was built next to the local paramedic and obstetric station.

Someone meanly stole the local landmark which cost the budget as much as 10 thousand rubles one frosty night. The head of the village turned to the police to find the criminal who deprived the village of the main center of civilization.

An investigation conducted by a local district police officer led to the trail of an unemployed resident of the same village. The police officer claims that the man was just firing the outdoor public toilet and meanly heating his house with these boards for two days.

Unemployed Russian Steals Towns Public Outhouse For Firewood

6 posted on 02/26/2023 5:37:44 AM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Timber Rattler

I don’t understand, everybody says Putin has lost! It’s over!


7 posted on 02/26/2023 5:38:56 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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Russia is losing, but hasn’t lost ... yet

that’s why Russia is still a menace, and Ukraine still needs help

simple


8 posted on 02/26/2023 5:50:33 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe Russian-free for 75 years ... you're welcome)
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To: Vision

Now we can understand why Montenegro wanted in NATO.


9 posted on 02/26/2023 5:51:38 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Vision
I don’t understand, everybody says Putin has lost! It’s over!

Is the war over? Putin is losing, being stuck in Ukraine a year later with less captured Ukrainian territory than he had in March 2022.

10 posted on 02/26/2023 5:51:46 AM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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Better kick Rumania out of NATO before it’s too late!


11 posted on 02/26/2023 5:54:28 AM PST by Does so (What distinguishes today's Russian aggression from that of the USSR?)
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Ah Moldova, another bastion of some democracy, vital to US interests. Putin must be extinguished before he grabs Moldova too.


12 posted on 02/26/2023 5:59:09 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

If Moldavia is taken by Russia, Romania won’t let that happen. They will go all in defending their Moldavian brothers - they have no choice.
Romania being part of NATO, this means all NATO will be forced to follow up.
At that point its 50/50 on the border of WWIII.


13 posted on 02/26/2023 6:10:21 AM PST by USA-FRANCE
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To: USA-FRANCE

👍

That’s exactly how I read this.

It could easily go nuclear too.


14 posted on 02/26/2023 6:14:13 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Timber Rattler

Russia wouldn’t depose their own puppet, genius.

We did that.


15 posted on 02/26/2023 6:29:45 AM PST by This_Dude
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To: Timber Rattler

My advice, join the Azovs on the front line.


16 posted on 02/26/2023 6:31:28 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Vision

It IS over; Russia has won.


17 posted on 02/26/2023 6:31:28 AM PST by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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To: USA-FRANCE

When do the nukes start flying?


18 posted on 02/26/2023 6:43:35 AM PST by MachIV
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To: canuck_conservative
that’s why Russia is still a menace, and Ukraine still needs help

Ukraine is massively corrupt - moreso than Russia
obamatollah & PedoJoe took the money laundering & corruption to new heights
Ukraine's corrupt government needs to be destroyed - not supported!


19 posted on 02/26/2023 6:54:54 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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Ukraine still needs help

When are you leaving for the front?

20 posted on 02/26/2023 7:26:02 AM PST by JonPreston
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